November 2009

November 30, 2009

France's culture minister has urged Europe not to abandon the market for digital archives to U.S. companies, such as Google Inc. Mitterrand, who is the
son of former French President Francois Mitterrand, made his remarks in
answer to a question about whether European ministers have a favorable
view of Google's plans to build a global digital library.

November 23, 2009

This is the first comprehensive retrospective of the films of Alice Guy
Blaché (1873–1968), a key but unsung figure of the early years of
cinema, the first woman director, and the first woman to establish and
preside over her own film studio. The exhibition is organized by Whitney curator-at-large Joan Simon. It
is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, published by Yale
University Press in association with the Whitney, with contributions by
noted film scholars Jane Gaines, Alison McMahan, Charles Musser, Alan
Williams, film historian and preservationist Kim Tomadjoglou, and the
show’s organizer, Joan Simon.

The New Zealand Film Archive is launching a fundraising drive to
build an international-standard coolstore to house its collection,
after running out of space for its 300,000 cans, reels and cassettes of
video and film.

The last great archives of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency may soon be available to researchers and the public — 14 boxes of handwritten notes, gifts and correspondence, including a letter from Italian dictator Benito Mussolini congratulating him on his 1933 inauguration.

“We were interested in experimenting with alternative access to cultural resources,” says Megan, an independent scholar whose history on advertising in the space age will be published in May 2010 by Blast Books. “We wanted to start a library that would support our work as researchers and archivists, but we wanted it to be open to everybody.”

A dispute over access to an archive involving Vienna's Jewish community
has prompted a group of academics to withdraw support for an Austrian
Holocaust research center, saying independent research is no longer
possible, according to a letter obtained Tuesday by The Associated
Press.